Word: tacking
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Taking an entirely different tack from the Rockefeller men, Michigan State University researchers have at tacked both parts of the food problem at once. Borrowing the methods and materials of highway builders, they have learned to lay down underground strips of asphalt that literally pave the way for richer crops of all varieties...
Scene: a junk-filled empty lot near London's seedy Portobello Road. Rain clouds. Children swinging from a rope tied to a tree. A crowd of corduroy jackets and miniskirts respectfully watches a German painter named Wer ner Schreib tack a huge picture of Ludwig Erhard to an easel, then set it afire...
Many clerics, unshaken in their belief that racial justice is a spiritual as well as a social problem, have taken a new and softer tack. In the face of congregational hostility, they have come to recognize that white fears about black power are as legitimate as Negro yearnings for a place in the sun. Changing a congregation's mind, says the Rev. Herbert Davis, a United Church of Christ minister from Chicago, "is not like a Texas roundup, where you beat hell out of the cattle." Recognizing that no word is better than a wrong word, many have abandoned...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Siege at Malta" recounts the heroic stand made by the citizens of the tiny Mediterranean island under incessant at tack by the German and Italian air forces during World...
...Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler took another tack. Contingency planning, he said, should begin as soon as possible and involve poor nations as well as rich. By last week's vote, the Ten agreed not only to continue seeking some kind of reform but also to broaden deliberations by including the 20-member executive board of the International Monetary Fund. Half the board is drawn from Group of Ten nations, but the other members represent African, Arab, Asian and Latin American countries, which will now be able to insert poor-nation needs and notions into the debate and perhaps break...